12:21 AM: In part of an email received by blog contact, Tom Hood is mentioned as possibly sharing his audio of board meeting:

Tom Hood had a better set up and didn't rely on battery
power. I am
pressing for his recording to be posted to KBOO's fragile
website soon. Based on the fact that a board member I trust already has
possession of this audio, I assume that this will happen soon.

Aug 9 FRI

9:50 AM: Time Tom Hood claims his account was hacked

9:52 AM: And email with the subject: TRANSACTION CONFIRMATION is sent from Tom Hood's account to multiple people including Hadrian and at least a couple others who have been attacked by the "Inner party". It contains a link to a phishing file hosted at http://drivesdocs.freehostingchamp.com/ with the words:

The headers tell their own tale. All IP addresses are private, probably Google gmail routers. A couple are identical to both emails, implying they were sent from the same location. Even a hacker using Toms email should show a different location.

This is not a spoof. A spoof is an email apparently sent from one account, but really from another. This was sent from Tom's account. The headers imply that Tom never lost control of his account.

Best hypothesis so far: Someone Tommy knew set up the phish file at champs account. Tommy agreed to use his email to send out link.

Speculated motive: find out if any enemies of the people were running the evil yellow blog.

Foreknowledge: in comments it was pointed out people were expecting an email from Tom Hood about the last board meeting audio.

In an email received this was referenced clearly:

Tom Hood had a better set up and didn't rely on battery
power. I am
pressing for his recording to be posted to KBOO's fragile
website soon. Based on the fact that a board member I trust already has
possession of this audio, I assume that this will happen soon.

This email was clearly prepping the blog contact to expect an audio file from Tom, in some way. Receiving an email from his address, with words saying, "CLICK HERE to view the important document I uploaded for you. " would fit the pattern of a set up.

That the email was never received by the blog contact might be the most pathetic failure and cancer in this situation.

The KBOO/Portland Indymedia Connection

It hasn't escaped readers attention that when anything embarrassing about the Inner Party is published on the PIMC newswire it tends to vanish. Not everything, but enough to make readers wonder. Rumors for weeks imply that Portland Indymedia is not only deleting articles for the clique controlling KBOO, but have been logging IP addresses and passing them on to Inner Party members.

More recently it was discovered the so called problems with "lost" compost articles were bogus, the compost link being connected to a blank page, while the real current compost link was orphaned:

Portland IMC seems to be taken over by "radicals" of the same stripe as the "Inner Party", in other words, not very radical and at least as controlling as the most annoying Republican. But now we know, from a tip in comments, the most likely culprit "massaging" the newswire for Keep KBOO KBOO: "Joe Anybody".

The latest "massage" being suppressing the KBOO related phishing article by banishing it to the compost:

Keep KBOO KBOO fraudulent, dangerous to KBOO
author: theduhfiles
Since
May a small clique of KBOO insiders afraid of losing control have been
branding themselves as "anti-corporate" and "saving" KBOO. The truth is
they will keep a strangle hold on the funds troubled station even if it
means committing a series of felonies and attacking KBOO membership

Judging by his homesite at http://www.bastardrecords.com,
Jesse London appears to be a teenager with a rock band in North
Carolina. Help me, please, to understand how this person managed to
scoop the entire Portland Indymedia staff and post this story first;
having never published here before. And how does a teenager from North
Carolina become a volunteer for Indymedia in Portland?
Has anyone met this guy, or has it all been e-mail contact?
I'm also still waiting for someone to tell me more about Matt McRae's involvement in activism before the shooting.
5000. - N.

A blog by Jesse, with Indymedia links, imply he studied law in some capacity:

PORTLAND
- Dec 16th, 2009 - Jeff "Free" Luers, political prisoner and
environmental activist, was released from the Columbia River
Correctional Institution this morning after serving nine and half years.
Luers was originally sentenced in 2001 to twenty two years and eight
months for the politically motivated arson of three SUV's at a car
dealership in Eugene, OR. This sentence was deemed grossly
disproportionate to the damage sustained by the car dealership and was
condemned by legal professionals, human rights groups and activists
worldwide. At an appeal hearing in 2007 it was ruled that Luers'
original sentence was illegal, and was consequently reduced to ten
years.

Luers' release today comes after what Oregon Department of
Corrections described as a 'mistake' when they released him early on
October 20th this year. After a few short hours of freedom, Luers was
taken back into custody in Eugene after the State agency reversed its
decision and determined that he did not qualify under the new House Bill
3508 for an additional 10% reduction in sentence. DOC's gross
incompetence in this situation, and the emotional toll borne by his
family and loved ones, is just one of many examples of the distressing
levels of bureaucratic impropriety that Luers has endured during his
years behind bars.

Upon his release this morning, Mr. Luers stated:

"The
last 9½ years have been difficult at best. I have witnessed things in
prison that I will carry with me for the rest of my life. I have endured
hardship and loss. Without a doubt, this experience has changed me.
What hasn't changed is my commitment to environmental and social
justice."

Kinda impressive just how many of these people don't have a message button on their profile. I get not having a friend button. You don't want to encourage crazy. But most of these people pretend to be journalists. Wouldn't a journalist want to be contacted?

Lisa Loving, the media professional, has no way to message her unless you know her friends. Same way with Ani, Presswatch, even Ani's page for her show, Positively Revolting. Even Joe Anybody. Or KBOO. What kind of journalists only want to be contacted by their friends?

Yeah, but even NBC doesn't have a message button. I don't think it means anything more than people don't want spam. The legit ones should have contact info on their about page. That's were Presswatch and Joe Anybody fail. Positively Revolting and KBOO both have contact info, so yeah, competence is random with these people.

"regular readers not visiting or not commenting. like they got suddenly scared of "teh internets" .

They're in shock. After we started digging into this, we had a good idea what we were dealing with. But most readers/fans have been played for years and have assumed all the fail was incompetence. Not unreasonable if you don't know what to look for. Or see flags for what they are.

To muddle things further, because the Inner Party drives off competent people, there IS incompetence. The mistake readers made was seeing it as cause instead of a symptom of the toxic control culture.

Once you know there's a dysfunctional control culture, you can predict this shit. It was never "if" they'd pull something like this. It was always "when".

"They're in shock. After we started digging into this, we had a good idea what we were dealing with. But most readers/fans have been played for years and have assumed all the fail was incompetence. Not unreasonable if you don't know what to look for. Or see flags for what they are."

I was shocked at the fearful and vociferous responses to Blue Oregon Action's Thom Hartmann petition.

I was shocked that after paying 5$ a month to Kboo I am finding out that I'm supporting a twisted cult like oligarchy.

I'm shocked that the Inner Party would be so fearful of a blog, that they would go "Phishing" and recruit hackers to find who's writing it.

A financially struggling community radio station on the brink of bankruptcy pissed away $15,000 of grant money, throwing out the new policies and reinstating the old one, many of which are illegal. Members of the board including the president conspired with staff and volunteers to drive Lynn Fitch out of her job for doing her job. The board president misappropriated funds, a board member conspired to hack a blog, apparently the kboo engineer took her up on the offer and tried to pull a phishing scam on members.

Now, in the middle of the president trying to renew the FCC license, multiple alphabet soup agencies are about to start breathing down KBOO's neck about the phishing scam, including the FCC.

Did I miss anything? Does anyone think KBOO will make it to the October elections?

$25,000 of grant money was wasted - new legal board policies, a board training manuel for new and hopeful board candidates (this was never used) to educate them on what being on a board was all about, their duties and responsibilities. None of the newly appointed board members have looked this manuel either and act as if they know nothing about the legalities involved with being on a board.

-KBOO fires Hood and takes credit for "doing something"-the person who set up the scam telling ppl to expect an audio from Tommy claims to be a victim too-Conser pretends not to know what's going on-In fact the entire Inner Party pretends not to know what's going on

There's just a slim chance that they can wiggle out of criminal charges by pretending to be phenomenally stupid. But they'll have to sacrifice KBOO to do it.

"-the person who set up the scam telling ppl to expect an audio from Tommy claims to be a victim too"

A variation: they all start claiming to be hacked, and try to create evidence for "plausible deniability" as if they were all hit because of a hijacked address book. Ergo "poor Hood, he was just the first to be hit!" *yawn*

Of course on the slim chance(very slim) this was true, after this Hood thing, they should be more prompt about notifying people.

imho it's obvious by now someone(s) on their labyrinthine interconnected fb friends lists is/are leaking information. thanks to a history of retaliation and vindictiveness(Lynn Fitch, Richard Smith?), those people aren't likely to come forward, unless legal proceedings start against the Inner Party. it'll be almost impossible to pin those people down, but i bet they're trying.

it's really amazing how much effort is being put into these antics while the station (figuratively) burns down around their ears.

Kboo.fm is safe and can be available by children, contains no malicious software and is not used for phishing. Kboo is popular, maybe one day it will become a reference, last time we check, its world rank was #461520. Its IP Address is 206.221.217.107 and is located in United States.

4.5 out of 5 for Kboo.fm by Safe-Browsing

Safety ReportGlobal Safety: This site is completly safeAudience concerned: This site is safe and should be available by every member of your familyMalware/Malicious Software: This website is free of malware and malicious softwarePhishing/Fraud: This domain name is not used for phishing and fraudPopularity/Reputation: This site seem to be popular enought to be trusted

Just because it's not reported on an Internet site, doesn't mean there's no problem:

"The KBOO sound quality has become worse daily since John Mackey left. Current engineer Tom "Hollywood" Hood is completely incompetent as an engineer. The recent problems with the KBOO air signal, streaming signal, and virus propagating web page are the simple proof; all started long after Mackey left and have not been fixed." -http://feedback.pdxradio.com

Then he's prbly acting alone. He haz some minor skillz. But no fucking sense.

Seriously, getting a buddy to set up a fish shop on a free ftp is one thing. But sending them to troll to cover your fail? And troll so badly? They know where the file was hosted. If by some long shot they were innocent and they didn't know, they would have read it. They're not pretending to engage rationally. So Co$ early 2008.

This continues to be the act of people trying to cover, evade, whatever. Hoping it will go away. Again, irrational.

"Oh! An internet website said kboo.fm is totally safe! We'll just ignore all the evidence we have otherwise and turn our frowns upside down! Bring on the kittehs and puppies!"

I don't know what sadder: this guy is implying people should do that, or that he really believes there's a chance people will.

Freehostingchamp.com is not safe and may not be available by children. Freehostingchamp might be a new site or is not popular yet, last time we check, its world rank was #1659697. Its IP Address is 31.170.167.92.

Safety ReportGlobal Safety: Warning: This site is not safe!Audience concerned: Warning: This site may contain adult content - This site might not be safe for childrenMalware/Malicious Software: This website is free of malware and malicious softwarePhishing/Fraud: This domain name is not used for phishing and fraudPopularity/Reputation: We do not have enought data... this site might not be a very popular one.

Talk about a strawman. Where was it said KBOO's website was untrustworthy? Apart from the people running it of course...Freehostingchamps maybe a sleazy website, but doesn't seem to be "in on it".

Mr. Smilie quotes "Phishing/Fraud: This domain name is not used for phishing and fraud", but that doesn't mean it never happens. It means it doesn't happen enough to flag the site, because when it does happen it's taken care of asap. Scammers use Yahoo and Gmail. Betting neither site registers as a fraud site either.

It's indicative of the "reasoning" that has been used by these people throughout. Take the Googledocs phish. People were prepped by smeone to expect an audio file from Tom Hood uploaded to the website. Maybe that person didn't notice readers were sorta dubious about Hood thanks to feedbackpdxradio. Or maybe they did notice, but were trying to get people to trust him: "He's not part of the problem! See? He'll prove it by getting the audio!"

Whichever. Then he sends out an email saying an expected file is at Googledocs. That's the first suspicious thing for someone expecting an AUDIO file from this guy. Why not Soundcloud? (Apparently audio files can be uploaded to Gdocs, but I've never heard anyone do it). Even after megaupload disappeared, there are so many better options out there for audio file sharing that don't require a login.

But the worst fail is they blew a chance to use Googledocs legitimately. If enough people sign in and edit a file, the person who uploaded it can see who is viewing. This only works with TEXT files, AFAIK. But now it won't ever work at all, because anyone following this fiasco will treat an email with Googledocs links from a KBOO member like cancer.

Why are they using Googledocs to share KBOO stuff when they have a website to freaking host it on?

DEFECTING FROM THE INNER PARTY?

Then start packing for the Happy Valley Reeducation Center, where we guarantee ALL Party Members WILL be HAPPY.

But seriously folks...

For readers who don't know the background, this blog was started by a group of KBOO radio fans.

Recent events at the station have been blown out of proportion by a small group of KBOO members who feel threatened by actions of management trying to address the very real issue of financial trouble and keep the station viable.

These people instead believe they are victims of a conspiracy involving Station Navigator Lynn Fitch and have promoted their cause with the worst kind of missionary zeal, in some cases using unethical tactics like impersonation. They call themselves "Keep KBOO KBOO" and appear to be led by Theresa Mitchell, who has a penchant for using revolutionary imagery and jargon. Allies include KBOO Board members abusing their influence. This begged for satire, thus this blog was born.

We are documenting the ongoing tussle and any new fibs and misinformation the "Keep KBOO KBOO" crowd creates. They also have a website called savekboo.org . We recommend anyone leaving comments there to archive them in text or images, as a certain amount of rewriting history is known to happen there.

BACK TO THE BARRICADES COMRADES!!!!

Praise for "Save KBOO from Save KBOO"

"is the funniest thing I've read in a long time." - delighted at Portland Indymedia June 7, 2013

"Anyway, the obsessives here are directly and clearly defined by how many 'NYAH NYAH NYAH-NYAH-NYAH-NYAH (e.g. "save kboo from asave kboo")'-titled smear-blog Obsessive Paranoiac websites they can manage to create in a week. " -huh? at Portland Indymedia June 7, 2013